James South
@southjb.bsky.social
Academic, psychotherapist, cat fan.
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As a Catholic bishop, I would urge radical transparency in anything related to the sexual abuse of minors. Fortunately, Trump did nothing like that. Let’s focus instead on the decline of modernity starting with Duns Scotus
November 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
As a Catholic bishop, I would urge radical transparency in anything related to the sexual abuse of minors. Fortunately, Trump did nothing like that. Let’s focus instead on the decline of modernity starting with Duns Scotus
Just a wonderful and thoughtful essay. I’m so tired of the “back to normal” crowd.
Living with Long COVID often feels like living in a horror movie. Along with your disease comes a creepy Hive Mind refusal to acknowledge the dangers of COVID infection. In Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show Pluribus, the Hive Mind comes to life:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
"Pluribus" captures the isolation of COVID-awareness in a COVID denialist world
For years I've described having Long COVID as living in a horror movie. Now that horror movie (well, prestige Apple TV show) is here.
www.thegauntlet.news
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Just a wonderful and thoughtful essay. I’m so tired of the “back to normal” crowd.
Beneventan nerd since 1990.
Who made this and why are you choosing nerd violence? ✍️ I mean, it is true, but still.
November 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Beneventan nerd since 1990.
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I have often said: lead with Beauty. Lead with Bach, lead with Dante’s great Commedia, lead with Chartres
November 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I have often said: lead with Beauty. Lead with Bach, lead with Dante’s great Commedia, lead with Chartres
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EUGENE DEBS MENTIONED
running around freaking out
running around freaking out
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
EUGENE DEBS MENTIONED
running around freaking out
running around freaking out
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Alberto Giacometti, Tall Figure, Half-Size, 1947
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136792
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136792
October 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Alberto Giacometti, Tall Figure, Half-Size, 1947
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136792
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136792
This holds up as a generalization about academic politics as well.
I'm generalizing, but why do conservatives remember political irritations for so much longer than liberals?
It's been 17 years since Obama said some voters "cling to their guns, to their religion" and I heard a senator denounce that last month.
Obvious theory: Media ecosystem puts it on repeat
It's been 17 years since Obama said some voters "cling to their guns, to their religion" and I heard a senator denounce that last month.
Obvious theory: Media ecosystem puts it on repeat
Imagine caring about Kaepernick in the year of our lord 2025
October 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This holds up as a generalization about academic politics as well.
Happens every year at my university.
News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."
One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."
One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."
October 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Happens every year at my university.
Just walked past a colleague in the hallway. I said good morning. They chose not to respond. Glad to know that some things in this crazy world don’t change.
October 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Just walked past a colleague in the hallway. I said good morning. They chose not to respond. Glad to know that some things in this crazy world don’t change.
Lost my appetite thanks to this LinkedIn post.
October 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Lost my appetite thanks to this LinkedIn post.
I spend enough time staring at Wisconsin: “Let’s have another stunt mass, not follow church teaching.”
Kind of a bummer that a Catholic university can’t reach Costco levels of obedience to Catholic teaching. (stares at California, not naming names, but implying names)
September 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I spend enough time staring at Wisconsin: “Let’s have another stunt mass, not follow church teaching.”
Hey—look at Marquette being an (unfortunate) example!
Loyola Marymount University claims religious exemption with the NLRB, claws back recognition of NTT faculty union
The sudden decision of the LMU Board of Trustees has left many NTT faculty in shock; the union plans a response.
The sudden decision of the LMU Board of Trustees has left many NTT faculty in shock; the union plans a response.
Loyola Marymount University claims religious exemption with the NLRB, claws back recognition of NTT faculty union
The sudden decision of the LMU Board of Trustees has left many NTT faculty in shock; the union plans a response.
wordsaboutwork.blog
September 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Hey—look at Marquette being an (unfortunate) example!
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Man, MU students were way ahead of the curve on this sort of fuckery.
A professor at Texas A&M taught… something related to gender that offended a student, who secretly filmed herself objecting. That video is picked up by TX legislators, who demand her firing, and now the dean and dept head have been fired.
www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Man, MU students were way ahead of the curve on this sort of fuckery.
"62% of faculty indicated that they had at some point seriously considered leaving Marquette."
Uff da!--"seriously" not a "it's February and I have to trudge through a foot of snow" way.
Uff da!--"seriously" not a "it's February and I have to trudge through a foot of snow" way.
September 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"62% of faculty indicated that they had at some point seriously considered leaving Marquette."
Uff da!--"seriously" not a "it's February and I have to trudge through a foot of snow" way.
Uff da!--"seriously" not a "it's February and I have to trudge through a foot of snow" way.
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Those of us with Long COVID have been grievously harmed by our government’s failure to implement disease control measures. That same government's denial of COVID's dangers has also created massive stigma around our illness, redoubling that harm.
My latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid...
My latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid...
Long COVID stigma adds insult to injury
It's weird having an illness a lot of people simply don't believe in
www.thegauntlet.news
September 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Those of us with Long COVID have been grievously harmed by our government’s failure to implement disease control measures. That same government's denial of COVID's dangers has also created massive stigma around our illness, redoubling that harm.
My latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid...
My latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid...
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the delta in quality between CUA press books and CUA academics is huge
September 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
the delta in quality between CUA press books and CUA academics is huge
If only Marquette lived up to this history.
Four American #Jesuits who sided with workers to remember on #LaborDay - America Magazine www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
Four American Jesuits who sided with workers to remember on Labor Day
In the United States, the Jesuits have provided striking examples of what solidarity and upholding the rights of workers looks like in an industrial economy.
www.americamagazine.org
September 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
If only Marquette lived up to this history.
Same as it ever was with this doofus.
David Brooks, fascism apologist.
People who choose fascism aren't responsible, the decadent left made them? The Nazis tried that excuse too.
Now as then, it's based on lies. All US media sources were not produced by leftists. That's insane. Fox, Rogan, Daily Wire, etc., not to mention Elon Musk's X.
People who choose fascism aren't responsible, the decadent left made them? The Nazis tried that excuse too.
Now as then, it's based on lies. All US media sources were not produced by leftists. That's insane. Fox, Rogan, Daily Wire, etc., not to mention Elon Musk's X.
August 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Same as it ever was with this doofus.
No one has the right to obey.
August 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
No one has the right to obey.
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Opining about the male loneliness crisis while women are losing access to reproductive rights, the maternal mortality rate is rising, and women are being forced out of the workforce is a real choice. It is a choice to ignore the deaths of women to promote the perceived victimhood of men.
August 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Opining about the male loneliness crisis while women are losing access to reproductive rights, the maternal mortality rate is rising, and women are being forced out of the workforce is a real choice. It is a choice to ignore the deaths of women to promote the perceived victimhood of men.
When I had a heart attack back in march, I was in a hospital waiting room and this guy was on the tv. I had the horrifying thought that he might be the last tv image I would see.
Today's newsletter is about serious news man Chris Cuomo melting down over an AI-generated video that tricked him www.readtpa.com/p/chris-cuom...
Chris Cuomo Fell for an AI Video Labeled "100% Fake" and It Gets Worse From There
The video was watermarked "parody 100% made with AI." Cuomo shared it anyway, then pivoted to attacking AOC about Hamas. It's even dumber than it sounds.
www.readtpa.com
August 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
When I had a heart attack back in march, I was in a hospital waiting room and this guy was on the tv. I had the horrifying thought that he might be the last tv image I would see.
80s power pop song of the day (cover edition)
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Marti Jones - Whenever You're On My Mind - 1986
YouTube video by Meloman_Mad
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July 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
80s power pop song of the day (cover edition)
youtu.be/Z8uVk5VHmZg?...
youtu.be/Z8uVk5VHmZg?...